2011 Valley Wide Chipping Program

2011 was another successful year of growth for the "On Demand" neighborhood chipping program. Now in its 6th season, The Big Bear Lake Fire Department, Big Bear City Fire Department, and San Bernardino County Fire Department combined their resources to offer chipping for the entire Big Bear Valley. Our crews serviced over 3,100 requests, thus helping to eliminate over 1,100 tons of vegetation. The majority of chipping requests were picked up within two weeks of their request. In addition, Bear Valley residents exceeded last year's entries by logging 8,700 hours creating defensible space on www.thinisin.org . Thank you to these residents. By taking the time to log in the hours spent creating defensible space, these residents have helped to maintain the grant funding responsible for the availability of the chipping program for the year 2012.

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2010 Valley Wide Chipping Program

2010 proved to be a very successful year of growth for the "On Demand" neighborhood chipping program. In its 5th season, The Big Bear Lake Fire Department, Big Bear City Fire Department and San Bernardino County Fire Department combined their resources to offer chipping for the entire Big Bear Valley. Over 4,200 requests for chipping were received and over 1,000 tons of vegetation were removed. The majority of chipping requests were picked up within two weeks of the requests. In addition, Bear Valley residents actively participated in the program by logging 7,171 hours from creating defensible space on www.thinisin.org . The logging of these hours helps to maintain the grant funding responsible for the availability of the chipping program the following year. The 2011 Valley Wide Chipping Program ran from June 1st to October 31st.

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2009 Neighborhood Chipping Program

2009 was a banner year for participation in the neighborhood chipping program.  Approximately 1,900 property owners participated in the chipping program.  One million pounds of vegetation were chipped.  The program was “On Demand”. 

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2007 Neighborhood Chipping Program

In 2007, the Neighborhood Chipping Program was expanded to include the entire Community of Big Bear Lake. It is estimated that over 1,009 tons of woody biomass from overgrown vegetation, dead branches stems and limbs and small trees trunks were collected curbside. Since 2006, a total of 1,059 acres on private properties have conducted some type of fuel reduction to help reduce the risk of fire to their neighborhood.

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